Bioinformatic tools for microRNA dissection

MM Akhtar, L Micolucci, MS Islam, F Olivieri… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Recently, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as important elements of gene regulatory
networks. MiRNAs are endogenous single-stranded non-coding RNAs (∼ 22-nt long) that …

Matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Z Navratilova, V Kolek, M Petrek - Archivum immunologiae et therapiae …, 2016 - Springer
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterised by irreversible airflow
limitation associated with chronic inflammation. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are …

miRNet-dissecting miRNA-target interactions and functional associations through network-based visual analysis

Y Fan, K Siklenka, SK Arora, P Ribeiro… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) can regulate nearly all biological processes and their dysregulation is
implicated in various complex diseases and pathological conditions. Recent years have …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of long non-coding RNA-associated ceRNA network to reveal potential prognostic lncRNA biomarkers in human ovarian cancer

M Zhou, X Wang, H Shi, L Cheng, Z Wang, H Zhao… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Accumulating evidence has underscored the important roles of long non-coding RNAs
(lncRNAs) acting as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) in cancer initiation and …

A fast PC algorithm for high dimensional causal discovery with multi-core PCs

TD Le, T Hoang, J Li, L Liu, H Liu… - IEEE/ACM transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Discovering causal relationships from observational data is a crucial problem and it has
applications in many research areas. The PC algorithm is the state-of-the-art constraint …

[HTML][HTML] Construction and analysis of dysregulated lncRNA-associated ceRNA network identified novel lncRNA biomarkers for early diagnosis of human pancreatic …

M Zhou, Z Diao, X Yue, Y Chen, H Zhao, L Cheng… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It is increasing evidence that ceRNA activity of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) played
critical roles in both normal physiology and tumorigenesis. However, functional roles and …

Integrated analysis of dysregulated ncRNA and mRNA expression profiles in humans exposed to carbon nanotubes

AA Shvedova, N Yanamala, ER Kisin, TO Khailullin… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background As the application of carbon nanotubes (CNT) in consumer products continues
to rise, studies have expanded to determine the associated risks of exposure on human and …

[HTML][HTML] microRNA-guided diagnostics in clinical samples

D Gustafson, K Tyryshkin, N Renwick - Best practice & research Clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
miRNA-guided diagnostics is a powerful molecular approach for evaluating clinical samples
through miRNA detection and/or visualization. To date, this approach has been successfully …

Identifying cancer subtypes from miRNA-TF-mRNA regulatory networks and expression data

T Xu, TD Le, L Liu, R Wang, B Sun, J Li - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Identifying cancer subtypes is an important component of the personalised
medicine framework. An increasing number of computational methods have been …

Anti-inflammatory effects of miR-21 in the macrophage response to peritonitis

RE Barnett, DJ Conklin, L Ryan… - Journal of Leucocyte …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We investigated the role of microRNA-21 in the macrophage response to peritonitis;
microRNA-21 expression increases in peritoneal macrophages after lipopolysaccharide …